Let’s suppose Intel is right: let’s suppose that the Keifer project succeeds. If this happens, then 32 core processors will appear on the market as soon as 2009/2010. This comes as no surprise; Sun already ships the Niagara with 8 cores running 4 hyperthreads per core (which is equivalent to 32 cores). This is a development that makes Erlang programmers very happy. They have been waiting 20 years for this to happen, and now it’s payback time. Here’s the good news for Erlang programmers: Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor. Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings: &#039;Judging Books. Judging Books by Their Covers Richard P.

Jon Flanders&#039; Blog:BizTalk and Windows Workflow Foundation. Friday, March 17, 2006 5:45:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) There are many really great things about using workflow as the logic behind your application. The one that really excites me is the visibility workflow gives you into what your application is doing. Another great thing is that many types of applications are naturally workflows, and so using workflow for those applications is really a no-brainer. One of the most-often cited examples is page flow in ASP.NET. Moving a user from page to page in an ASP.NET application is really a workflow.
Wicked Code: Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0. Are people ’stuck’ on Windows? « dreamcatching. OCEAN-FLOOR PLATES collide, shift along giant faults, or crack and spread apart. Two narrow, water-filled splits on the flanks of continents—the Gulf of California and the Red Sea—are oceans of the future just beginning to open, marine geologists say. Their basins are widening; heat comes up from below their floors.

In Mexico’s Gulf of California great volumes of sediment carried down by the Colorado River mask the seabed rifting. Someday that rift may rip north, open a sea­way through Nevada, and break away much of California as an island. In the Red Sea, in several deep basins or holes, a different sort of mud exists. Ever since the first Challenger’s cruise a century ago, it has been known that potato-size lumps rich in manganese and iron cover wide areas of the ocean floor, almost as thick as cobblestones.
Is Design Dead?
For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design.

Not just is much design activity ridiculed as "Big Up Front Design", but such design techniques as the UML, flexible frameworks, and even patterns are de-emphasized or downright ignored. In fact XP involves a lot of design, but does it in a different way than established software processes. XP has rejuvenated the notion of evolutionary design with practices that allow evolution to become a viable design strategy. It also provides new challenges and skills as designers need to learn how to do a simple design, how to use refactoring to keep a design clean, and how to use patterns in an evolutionary style. Extreme Programming (XP) challenges many of the common assumptions about software development.
Exploration Through Example » Blog Archive » Four implementation. Many of the tests that currently use browser-driving tools like Selenium, Watir, or Silk could use different implementation technologies.

In the rest of this note, I describe the pros and cons of browser driving, HTTP driving, the Rails variant of HTTP driving, and app-layer driving. Context. Structured Procrastination. Educate Your Stakeholders!
Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past. The Natural Productivity Cycle In your personal life, when attending to business or working on side projects, how often do you spend 8 consecutive hours in front of a computer?

It doesn’t make sense because we lose the ability to concentrate effectively within a few hours. Everyone goes through alternating periods of high and low mental acuity. There are days when I work on personal projects for well over 8 hours, but the time is always divided into multiple sessions. I might spend a few hours coding a design, a few hours writing, and a few hours reading feeds, moderating comments, and responding to email.
From design to meaning: a whole new way of pre. My favorite book of the summer is Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind.

All For Games: An Interview with Warren Spector. Warren Spector is probably most acclaimed for his work on Deus Ex, but his experience has spanned many studios.

From Origin, to Looking Glass Studios, to Ion Storm, Spector has made his mark, especially in terms of interactive story and depth of character immersion. Now, with his new Houston-based studio Junction Point (taking the title from a cancelled Looking Glass game), Spector plans to take all of that a step further, with a brand new intellectual property.
Erlang For The Practical Man.